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Sunday, 27 July 2014

Working in Information Technology roles for over 25 years, you come away with a lot of insights and experiences that hopefully forms the body of knowledge that I carry with me anywhere my services are engaged.

What gets to me
most about environments that have pre-existing implementations I either need to
support or update is the simple things that administrators and architects fail
to put in place to make support accessible and easy.

Fundamental design
thinking that means you only have to go digging when necessary, I prefer to
make process chains as visible as possible, this could be down to simple naming
conventions that link different processes together that you easily know what
connects to the other thing by simple viewing of an administrative console.

Simplicity in security

One other thing I
have learnt working in multinational environments is never to create administrative
or common use passwords comprised of keyboard characters that change locations
on the keyboard depending on the language.

Then, security, I
have tended to call them the security Taliban because they seem to forget that
their function is to facilitate access rather than restrict access. Yet, what
you encounter in many environments are walls and restrictions that excites the
ingenuity of the humanity to find and dig tunnels are circumvent these
restrictions.

Simplicity and simple

I always have the
mind of always designing in such a way that users do not end up crafting
breakouts or hacks to obliterate or replace my design. In essence, whilst this
reads like a technical blog, the goal of what I do is to create simplicity from
implementation through to ease of use.

I never try to
reinvent the wheel, rather, I find ways to get a smooth ride, I’ll work on the
road. This is the essence of keeping it simple, using the wealth of experience
to take the complicated out of everyday things and finding the simplicity that allows
others to carry on from where I left off.